Charles Schulz once said, “happiness is a warm puppy,” and he couldn’t have been more right (of course, this goes for all other furry friends, too). There’s nothing like coming home from a long day to see your pet waiting by the door for you, watching the look on his face when you grab a […]

Using ‘this’ or ‘next’ to describe a coming day of the week There is sometimes disagreement among English speakers when labeling days in a sequence with this and next, and you may hear people say either this or next to refer to the coming day. If you study sequences of time more carefully, it can help you to understand […]

With all the hubbub in Texas over bathroom bills and whatnot, one bill that quietly swooped into place is a statewide ban on texting and driving. It goes into effect on September 1. Governor Greg Abbott signed the bill but with reservations. At a news conference, he expressed concerns that a city could usurp the state’s power and […]

How many days go by where you did nothing to move toward your big goals? Probably too many. Life is busy. If you don’t purposefully carve time out every day to progress and improve — without question, your time will get lost in the vacuum of our increasingly crowded lives. Before you know it, you’ll be old […]

It’s time to give these neglected pieces some love Vacuum, mop, dust—cleaning one’s home tends to be a checklist of the same tasks on repeat. But while you’re busy wiping down that same table for the fiftieth time, items you never thought to wash are under full assault by germs and dust mites. “I think […]